Authors
Francisco B Ortega, Enrique G Artero, Jonatan R Ruiz, Vanesa España-Romero, David Jiménez-Pavón, Germán Vicente-Rodríguez, Luis A Moreno, Yannis Manios, Laurent Beghin, Charlene Ottevaere, Donatella Ciarapica, Katerina Sarri, Sabine Dietrich, Steven N Blair, Mathilde Kersting, Dénes Molnar, Marcela González-Gross, Ángel Gutiérrez, Michael Sjöström, Manuel J Castillo
Publication date
2011/1/1
Journal
British journal of sports medicine
Volume
45
Issue
1
Pages
20-29
Publisher
British Association of Sport and Excercise Medicine
Description
Objective
To report sex- and age-specific physical fitness levels in European adolescents.
Methods
A sample of 3428 adolescents (1845 girls) aged 12.5–17.49 years from 10 European cities in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece (an inland city and an island city), Hungary, Italy, Spain and Sweden was assessed in the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence study between 2006 and 2008. The authors assessed muscular fitness, speed/agility, flexibility and cardiorespiratory fitness using nine different fitness tests: handgrip, bent arm hang, standing long jump, Bosco jumps (squat jump, counter movement jump and Abalakov jump), 4×10-m shuttle run, back-saver sit and reach and 20-m shuttle run tests.
Results
The authors derived sex- and age-specific normative values for physical fitness in the European adolescents using the LMS statistical method and expressed as tabulated …
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FB Ortega, EG Artero, JR Ruiz, V España-Romero… - British journal of sports medicine, 2011